Re: FTOPS 2.5k Hand Reading Excercise
 

Oops my bad sb checks bb bets

Re: FTOPS 2.5k Hand Reading Excercise
 

since you corrected yourself and said it was BB, I would say his range is likely a weak Ace that is betting trying to sandwich UTG+1. SB knows that UTG will probably let any hand that is not an Ace go. I think it is either a weak drawing hand like J9 or a weak Ace. I don't think that sb is going to be into the Preflop raise with 88 or TT or even AT.

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888 seems really likely to me. He's pretty much always shoving 1010/AK. I guess AQ is a possibility but he'd have to be way worse than we've given him credit for to play it this way...same with him getting in there with AJ/AT preflop.

so yeah, 88 with a chance of AQ/AJ/AT....and despite what the great Mr. Jones says, I'd guess very very rarely air.

Oh. an P.S. if he has an A he is always tank-calling to a shove.

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BB is getting huge odds to call yet he goes into the tank out of respect to the EP raise. The only things he should be thinking about here are whether to reraise but just calls, which narrows him to AK, AQ, TT, JJ or deciding whether to set mine with smaller pairs. With stacks fairly deep here the answer to set mining should be yes. He's not squeezing with garbage, the other two players are in the wrong positions.

When that flop comes he bets into the EP raise against a fairly dry board. He should bet out with any sets because the A on the board will scare away EP pairs from betting, and an EP Ace will still give him action, but he's also probably betting out AK, AQ to get some definition to the hand and with the gutter. JJ prolly bets to test for the A as well.

I dont see any way to narrow him beyond that.

Edit: MLG why does he shove AK,TT and why isnt JJ in his range? Thanks in advance.

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I was bb Aejones was right.